Blu-ray Discs Won't Be Cheap

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 9, 2006 @05:07AM from the leeloo-dallas-multipass dept.

frdmfghtr writes "Red Herring has a story on the forthcoming price of Sony Blu-Ray HD DVDs. At $23.45 wholesale, they aren't cheap. From the article: 'Some of the movies to be released in the first batch by Sony are The Fifth Element, Desperado, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, Legends of the Fall, and Terminator. Sony's wholesale price of $23.45 for Blu-ray discs is 56 percent more than the $14.99 it costs to buy a new DVD of Hitch from BestBuy.com. A Terminator DVD is available for $9.99.' Another reader suggested a link to an Ars Technica article with more information.

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Wow... great selection... by ChePibe · 2006-02-09 05:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

All they need to do is throw Plan 9 from Outer Space on that list and they'd have some of the best movies ever!

Seriously, can't they find something a little bit better than these largely forgetable films? Terminator is something of a classic, I realize, and I have not seen House of Flying Daggers so I would exclude it from my list, but the rest of the list just doesn't excite me. Many of them don't even really show off the new format's higher resolution - I can't imagine Hitch has that much to show off.